ALSC Fifth Annual Conference (1999)
New York, NY, October 29-31, 1999
Friday, October 29
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Registration
2:00 – 4:15 p.m. World Literature
Chair: John
Ellis (UC Santa Cruz)
- Sir Hugh Lloyd Jones (Oxford University): “Goethe and the Greeks.”
- Michael Valdez Moses (Duke University): “Magical Realism at World’s End.”
- Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern University): “Dostoevsky and the Literature of Process.”
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Poet Charles Wright reads from his own work
5:30 – 7:45 p.m. Reception with an address by President Austin Quigley
Also: A Toast to Goethe led by Gerald Gillespie
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Poster Session
Saturday, October 30
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Cervantes in a World Context
Chair: Dario Fernandez-Morera (Northwestern
University)
- Diana Wilson (University of Denver): “Cervantes and the Chronicles of the Indies.”
- Howard Young (Pomona College): “Game of Circles: Conversations between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.”
- James Parr: “Don Quixote, Translation and Interpretation.”
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Discussion Sessions (Cervantes)
12:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Humanities in the Undergraduate
Curriculum
Chair: Mark Bauerlein (Emory
University)
- Kathy Eden (Columbia University): “The Great Books in the Undergraduate Curriculum.”
- John Briggs (UC Riverside): “Literature in the Composition Program.”
- Thomas F. Bertonneau: “Orality, Literacy, and the Tradition.”
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Coffee Service
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. Discussion Sessions (Humanities)
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Members Meeting
8:00 p.m. Dinner followed by an address by Sir Ferdinand Mount, Editor in Chief, Times Literary Supplement.
Sunday, October 31
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. (Three Concurrent Sessions):
Charles Wright: Poet and Three Critics
Chair: Eleanor Cook (University of Toronto)
- Bonnie Costello (Boston University): “The Passions of Charles Wright.”
- James Logenbach (University of Rochester): “The Landscapes of Charles Wright.”
- Willard Spiegelman (Southern Methodist University): “The Vision of Charles Wright.
Romantic Poetry
Chair: Norman Fruman (University of Minnesota)
- Robert Gleckner (Duke University): “Humpty Dumpty Blake.”
- Jerome McGann (University of Virginia): “Millennial Romanticism.”
- James Engell (Harvard University): “Romantic poems and Ideas.”
Classic to Renaissance
Chair: Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College)
- Charles Marowitz (Malibu Stage Company): “Shakespearean Acting – Cue for Passion.”
- Tom Hester (North Carolina State University): “Reading the ‘Tale’ in Othello.”
- Eric Gans (UCLA): “Aeschylus to Racine – Drama Internal Scene.”
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